To Mutilate/To Create
Signy Holm

STRIDE +15 WINDOW
ARTS COMMONS
205 8 AVE SE

April 11 – May 30, 2018

Closing Reception
Thursday, May 10 @ 6-7PM
Refreshments to follow at the Palomino

A P A R T

The text can be read in multiple ways. ‘APART’, ‘A PART’, ‘PART A’.
Its meaning is made by conscious fragmentation. The fragments of objects are present, yet never complete and never true to their original function. Disfunction, paradox, and redundancy are the three tenets of “negative” meaning-making: meaning, through the process of negation one reaches knowing–meaning, in the mutilation of the existing, one both affirms and contests the known. The exhibition To Mutilate/to Create culminates into a video, sculpture and text-based installation, through which the idea of function and reason is questioned, and through simple physical interventions, convention and boundaries are questioned.

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Signy Holm is in her third year at the Alberta College of Art + Design studying drawing. She works primarily in performance, new media and sculpture. She is currently the director of HORSE CLUB, student-run club dedicated to the facilitation of media arts, as well as a member of The Pidgin Collective, a student group focused on writing and critical discourse. Signy Holm lives and works in Calgary, Alberta.

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